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VIP Partier Tells Story

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- A young woman told Channel 4 Action News on Friday that she was one of about 20 who partied with Ben Roethlisberger at the Capital City nightclub last week on the night that a female college student told police she was sexually assaulted by the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.

"Everyone keeps talking about how nice he was. He was not nice," the woman said.

She told reporter Ari Hait that people who were with Roethlisberger invited her into the VIP area of the club in Milledgeville, Ga. She said the quarterback hit on her there and she found him to be arrogant, so she left.

"He bought a round of shots for girls and said, 'All you bitches, take my shots,' and I got pissed because that's very rude and disrespectful to call girls a bunch of bitches," she said.

The woman said that, before she left, she saw Roethlisberger with the woman who would eventually become his accuser. She didn't think anything of it until the next morning when she heard about the accusations.

Look for updates on this page and hear the woman's story tonight on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m.

Roethlisberger has not been charged with any crimes. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is continuing to investigate the 20-year-old woman's claims of what happened to her in the early-morning hours of March 5.

Hait reported that Roethlisberger has hired private investigator Charles Mittelstadt, who has worked on behalf of Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis and rapper T.I. in the past. Also working for Roethlisberger is attorney Ed Garland, who represented Lewis on a murder charge in 2000 that was eventually dropped.

Mittelstadt told Channel 4 Action News on Friday that his team is looking into every aspect of the woman's allegation, including her sobriety on the night in question.

Re: VIP Partier Tells Story

Now that Ben has a PI involved anyone saying anything without an attorney is potentially asking for trouble. They need to ensure that someone can corroborate what was said or they'll find themselves all fair game to the investigator's microscope. If it was said, that's fine, if it wasn't these guys will tear this college kids apart.

All the investigator needs is one woman to say Ben was a complete gentleman and the accuser and her friend now look like idiots even if Ben used the "B" word when referring to all the ladies at the party.

Re: VIP Partier Tells Story

The testimony of this girl is difficult to discern. Obviously there is a tendency to back her school mates. So is it made up to make the accusation credible or does it represent reality? And if it does represent reality, whose reality? It may have come across rude to her but Ben meant it light-heartedly (although thoughtlessly). He was probably a bit inebriated, I would think.